Installation madness o_O

I’m not a coding/IT guru but I’m not a beginner either so this makes the thing even more frustrated. By wanting to make the installation process easy, the description lacks a lot of details I believe. Here’s what I have:

Then comes the famous error : “There was a problem connecting to the database you specified. Please check the settings, then try again.”

So I can’t pass step1. I then look in the forum but could not find anything usefull. One would expect that installing a forum should not require advanced PHP or MySQL knowledge. This is quite annoying.

Also, if I try to remove the “-sample” from the “bb-config-sample.php” then I get the error message “ERROR: Could not establish a database connection”. Finally, I have also created the database in phpMyAdmin. Of course there’s 0 tables.

Any help would be extremly nice as I’m about to give up and go for PHPBB3…

It’s frustratingly awkward to install isn’t it. I hope this improves somehow. I managed it once before after (a long time spent) integrating it with WordPress but now I want to install it again as a stand-alone I’m finding it near impossible to get past “There was a problem connecting to the database you specified. Please check the settings, then try again”. These forums are near useless too.